In return, Bruce requests that Talker cast aesthetic judgment on the upcoming performance of HardCell:

A madcap new comedy of errors and mistaken identity. When college professor Nick Abtahi finds himself lost in a small Midwestern town, the welcome mat doesn’t exactly get rolled out by its crazy collection of locals. This laugh out loud comedy makes its world premiere at Geva.

Bruce sent two tickets, leaving one seat unfilled. Recently, Talker has been all work — editors, creditors, fickle readers and prima donna writers — and no play. So, in what ought not be a hard sell, Talker offers a ticket to HardCell.

Afterwards, Talker will get us a table at Nox where we can hobnob with the cast. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Sunday, 1/6/19

We seek a connoisseur of the arts, one with a dramatic eye and a clever pen. Ideally, our evening escort might be comely, vivacious, and sweetly articulate. While Talker is open minded, we do prefer a companion of the feminine persuasion. Any interested parties can respond to David Kramer, dkramer3@naz.edu

The office as therapy in Geva’s The May Queen looks at how playwright Molly Smith Metzler problematizes the concept of narcissist personality disorder by creating a sympathetic character who could easily be clinically diagnosed as narcissistic.

In Thumbs up for Geva’s “Thurgood”, we dicussed three Geva plays been based on the lives of historically prominent African-Americans: Mountaintop (2015), Martin Luther King Jr., The Agitators (2017), Frederick Douglass, and Thurgood (2018), Thurgood Marshall.

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